Backport loewis' checkin of revision 1.44:

Encode MSVC paths as mbcs. Fixes #509117. 2.2.1 candidate.

(apparently 1.5.2 compatibility is still a goal for distutils, but
I'll wait until that gets amended on the trunk...)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index 8a67dfc823dc2a32bbd9eb5428329cdd07eb5cfe..35336642ae704f6f86e9ae13d3392acba59dbf42 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ def get_msvc_paths (path, version='6.0', platform='x86'):
                     if string.upper(p) == path:
                         V = string.split(v,';')
                         for v in V:
+                            try:
+                                v = v.encode("mbcs")
+                            except UnicodeError:
+                                pass
                             if v == '' or v in L: continue
                             L.append(v)
                         break